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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active






2. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






3. Assurance that a product - service or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders






4. Communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and address issues as they occur






5. Partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing and presenting information and data






6. A component of work performed during the course of a project






7. Risk response planning technique associated with threats that seeks to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk to below an acceptable threshold






8. Deliverable that is subject to approval by the project sponsor or customer






9. Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) and its associated WBS dictionary






10. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.






11. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance






12. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports






13. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






14. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






15. Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






16. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work






17. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables






18. Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result






19. Compares technical accomplishments during project execution to the project management plan's schedule of planned technical achievements.






20. Document that describes how the project scope will be defined - developed and verified and how the work breakdown structure will be created and defined and that provides guidance on how the project scope will be managed and controlled by the project






21. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






22. Requests to expand or reduce the project scope - modify policies - processes - plans or procedures - modify costs or budgets - or revise schedules






23. Total costs actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. actual cost can sometimes be direct labor hours alone - direct costs alone - or all c






24. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded






25. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






26. Launching a process that can result in the authorization of a new project






27. Modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity. activity with a 10 day lag - cannot start until 10 days after an activity is finished






28. Developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase and documenting initial requirement that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






29. Information and data on the status of the project schedule activities being performed to accomplish the project work collected as part of the direct and manage project execute processes. Information includes: status of deliverables - implementation s






30. Technique that computes or iterates the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations - to calculate a distribution of total project costs or completion






31. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






32. The process of finalizing all activities across all of the project management process groups to formally complete the project or phase






33. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






34. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






35. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






36. Processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies - objectives and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken






37. Float (total float - free float)






38. Quantifiable deviation - departure or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value






39. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






40. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






41. Modification that allows an acceleration of the successor activity.






42. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities






43. Graphical representation of situations showing causal influences - time ordering of events and other relationships among variables and outcomes






44. Permission and direction to begin work on a specific schedule activity or work package or control account. sanctions project work to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time - and in the proper sequence






45. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






46. The process of obtaining seller responses - selecting a seller and awarding a contract






47. Type of procurement document whereby the buyer requests a potential seller to provide various pieces of information related to a product or service or seller capability






48. The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact






49. Evaluation of whether or not a product - service - or system complies with a regulation - requirement - specification or imposed condition.






50. Directing - managing - performing and accomplishing the project work - providing the deliverables and providing work performance information